Every day thousands of animals get killed to feed a rapidly growing human population. The prevalent practices of 'slaughter to salver' entail risks of infection as also suffering for the animals. A new technology of producing animal meat in the lab could be the much awaited solution, Pawan Kumar Dhar contends.

As the world remembers the father of the Green Revolution Norman Borlaug, India's leading agricultural scientist Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan says his pledge to make hunger history must be taken to its logical conclusion. Only that would be a fitting tribute to the famine fighter.

Mendel's laws of inheritance were zoom-in-zoom-out. They were not designed to describe the evolution of information in the intermediate layers between genotype and phenotype. What kind of preparation is needed to discover laws in these layers of biology? Pawan Kumar Dhar explores.

Snake venom toxin researcher R. Manjunatha Kini, a professor at National University of Singapore and founder of a couple of companies working on venom therapeutics, spoke to Nature India on his love for all things toxic.

In times when much-debated stem cell therapies are opening up myriad treatment options for every possible malady, could heart ailments be far behind? In a critical analysis of use of human stem cells in clinical studies and animal models, Lakshmi Pillai and Deepa Bhartiya also look at the hurdles that need to be crossed to make stem-cell based regenerative medicine a reality.

Seven years after the first report on the 'vanishing islands' of Sundarbans, Subhra Priyadarshini revisits the fragile delta in the Bay of Bengal to find that it is not just climate change that threatens the existence of this world heritage mangrove tiger-land spread across the Indo-Bangladesh border.

As the world remembers the father of the Green Revolution Norman Borlaug, India's leading agricultural scientist Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan says his pledge to make hunger history must be taken to its logical conclusion. Only that would be a fitting tribute to the famine fighter.

K. Anantha Padmanabhan, Mercator Professor of DFG (German Research Foundation) at the Institute of Materials Physics, University of Muenster, Germany and a former director of IIT Kanpur speaks to Mohit Kumar Jolly on 'superplastics', science education and doing science in India.

Four years from now, NASA will launch a capsule called TiME headed for Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. With a dense atmosphere and some evidence of surface liquid, Titan is our prime target in the search for extraterrestrial life. Biplas Das reports from a meet discussing clues to ET life.